Quotes by Thomas Mann

About Thomas Mann:

Paul Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas are noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche and Schopenhauer.
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Winning her heart again meant more than any championship.

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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

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Nein, die Schule hat keinen bestimmenden Einfluss auf meine Entwicklung gehabt. Die Schule hat von meinen besonderen Anlagen wohl instinktiv etwas gespürt, sie aber als obstinate Untauglichkeit gewertet und verworfen. Ein Lehrer drohte, zufällig ni...

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I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.

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What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes.

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Vuole credere lei che sarei orgoglioso e felice di possedere un amico tra gli uomini? Ma fino ad ora ho avuto amici solo tra demoni, farfarelli, mostri oscuri e fantasmi afasiaci, vale a dire: tra letterati.

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... sentia a distância que o separava dela, pois seu modo de falar não era o dela. E mesmo assim era feliz, pois a felicidade, dizia para si mesmo, não é ser amado; isto é uma satisfação misturada com asco para a vaidade. A felicidade é amar ...

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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

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Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

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A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.

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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

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A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.

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People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.

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Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

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Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.

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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

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What is uttered is finished and done with.

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Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.

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What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!

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Author Bio

  • NameThomas Mann
  • DescriptionGerman novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate
  • AliasesThomas Mann
  • BornJune 6, 1875
  • DiedAugust 12, 1955
  • CountryGerman Empire; Weimar Republic; United States Of America
  • ProfessionNovelist; Essayist; Autobiographer; Short Story Writer; Social Critic; Diarist
  • WorksBuddenbrooks; The Magic Mountain; Death In Venice; Joseph And His Brothers; Lotte In Weimar: The Beloved Returns
  • AwardsNobel Prize In Literature; Goethe Prize; Order Of Merit For Arts And Science